Facebook team yesterday announce the expanding of Facebook Connect to iPhone application platform . This integration will allows iPhone and iPod users to use their Facebook Id to authenticate themselves on any participating iPhone applications. They can also share the contents from the iPhone app with their friends via Facebook’s News Feed.
With this enhancement, Facebook Connect is a step ahead of Google Friend Connect, a Google service which provide similar function. Other comparison including Facebook Connect plugin for WordPress, called Comments Box, which was released almost a month ago, while similar plugin for Google Friend Connect, is just released 2 days ago.
The race to get integrated with iPhone app is crucial for both services, considering the massive size of iPhone app store has, with over 27k applications and total of 500 millions download . By adding this service, iPhone app developers can take advantage of Facebook popularity to attract more users to download their application too.
While Facebook has nothing to worry about iPhone and its app store (it has no mobile service business), Google at the other hand has Android which trailing behind iPhone app. It has to consider every aspect before deciding to integrate Google Friend Connect with iPhone as well as Android.
One of our favorite game in iPhone, Tap Tap Revenge 2 is among the earliest application being integrated with Facebook Connect . Having plays this game even before we own an iPhone, we can’t be more thankfulness of the new release and its FB integration. If you’re one of the fan, don’t forget to download the latest version and integrated it with your Facebook.
InsideFacebook has listed more iPhone applications that has integration feature with Facebook Connect.
